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Spooky Thots

Spooky Thots

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If at all possible, try to mimic what it use to be like when Rs3 was just RuneScape. In terms of F2p, have the skills limited to combat related, runecraft, mining, smithing, wc****, and any if I missed any off the top of my head. Also, have the "member-only" area blocked off to F2P like it was back then as well. Maybe possibly adapt the way F2P is handled in Rs3 as well with the members-only skills. Having the cap at lvl 5, so the F2P players can at least have a taste at what those skills involve, assuming these new F2P players don't know about these skills already.

15-May-2014 20:24:22

The Wise MOM

The Wise MOM

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Honestly bringing f2p for two weeks wont help at all , i for example dont start my membership till i get 60 str 40 att and 60 magic and range , it takes the same time for f2p and members hence the weps that can be used at these levels are the same so it wont benefit at all , i suggest you put f2p on the old school server perm so you can gain more members

15-May-2014 20:26:40

Venenatis
Sep Member 2007

Venenatis

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Nice blog, i'm SO glad we are getting official auto-typers. As a veteran player, auto-typers have been a huge problem for Runescape throughout the years and no matter what anyone did, no matter who was muted or banned they couldn't be stopped.

The game being against auto-typers did more harm to itself then good, they wanted to prevent unfair advantage but by doing so they actually made the unfair advantage greater. The rules prevented players with game integrity from using the typers, but the those who didn't care still did, thus entering a cycle of self defeat.

So kudos to the OS team for being the ones to put the nail in the coffin for illegitimate auto-typing.

I do have one question though about the finances of OS. I can't help but notice streamers often raise money for stuff, i'm not sure what they raise money for but...what if they raised money for faster old school updates?

Say the goal is to raise 1k USD in order to hire the engine team to make the screen size bigger, couldn't that work?
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15-May-2014 20:31:05 - Last edited on 15-May-2014 20:33:17 by Venenatis

WalkingSnail
Feb Member 2020

WalkingSnail

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You will remember that over Hallowe’en last year we ran a free trial for a few days. We carefully monitored the results and although activity increased briefly, we actually lost revenue overall because we did*’t gain any significant number of new members.
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Theres so much content that ppl can't grasp it in two weeks, let alone 2 days. You can only expect to lose even more money from this.
There's reason why RS3 no longer have trial system in place. ~99% of ppl that will take advantage of this will never become paying membersm, count in those who just make new throw-away accounts to scam, lure, spam etc.
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15-May-2014 20:34:49

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